Use ’Corluma’ to Control Hue, LIFX - Nanoleaf Lights on Ubuntu
If you’re rocking some luscious LED smart lights in your home and you want to be able to control them from your Ubuntu desktop, check out Corluma.
Corluma is a cross-platform light controller app available for macOS, iOS, Android, and — of interest to those of you reading this — Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. While the mobile and Mac versions of the app are paid software the Ubuntu version is free (as in beer).
The aim of the app is to allow you to control all your lights from one app, without having to configure IFTT, smart assistant integrations, etc. For some of these lights, there aren’t other options for controlling them on Ubuntu.
So if you’ve LIFX lights, or those pricey (but pretty) NanoLeaf tiles, you can control all of them from within one app, at the same time — an undoubted boon. Better yet, the app works over the local Wi-Fi network so there are no cloud services to sign up to, or logins to faff around with.
Now, I don’t have any smart lights that are compatible with this app for me to test, so I can’t illuminate (sorry) this post with much first-hand perspective. While I have written about how to control Hue lights on Ubuntu before Corluma is the first tool I’ve seen that encompasses support for more than just Hue.